The typical Democrat clod
who, seething with envy of the more successful, applauds higher
taxes
on rich folk – and never figures it out: His Democrat demagogues
posing as “leaders” noisily enact laws that purport to take
money
from the evil rich … while quietly creating loopholes and
granting
exemptions that evade those very laws.

The
Democratic party
leadership has never abandoned the political philosophy
enunciated by
President Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisor, Harry Hopkins:
“We
will tax and tax, spend and spend, and elect and elect.”
That is precisely the
strategy that elected – and re-elected – Barack Obama.
It is historical fact,
revealed in Soviet KGB files that came to light after the Soviet
Union fell: Harry Hopkins was a communist spy for the USSR. It
is his
philosophy that still guides the Democratic Party. And most of
its
members are too ignorant to know it.

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Make no mistake about it. The
really rich can afford the legal and accounting advice
that
enables them to avoid the feverish grasp of panting liberals and
their tax collectors (a glance at the Kennedy family trusts
should be
enlightening) while the real burden is borne by smaller business
owners and professionals – merchants, doctors, etc. – who create
most American jobs.

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“If the federal government
took over the Sahara Desert, in five years there would be a
shortage
of sand.” – The late economist Milton Friedman

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Of all the absurd claims made
by both sides in the great “fiscal cliff” debate, the most
egregious – mostly coming from Republicans seeking justification
for their sell-out to Obama – is that this-or-that taxpayer
protection is “permanent.”
Note this well: There is
nothing truly permanent
in
politics.
What
one Congress and president can do can always be undone by a
successor
– or the courts. Given some interpretations by judges, not even
the
constitution is permanent.

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Millions of Americans,
ignorant of history that is so seldom – and poorly – taught in
our schools, agree with the thesis that gun ownership by
citizens is
unnecessary because we are under no threat of a tyrannical
government. They are delusional, as wiser people have known
throughout the years.
Prof. Walter Williams
has collected some quotes on the subject:
Alexander Hamilton: "The
best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they
be
properly armed.”
James Madison: "(The
Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed, which the
Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation
...
(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with
arms."
Thomas Jefferson: "What
country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned
from
time to time that their people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let
them take arms."
George Mason, author of
the Virginia Bill of Rights, which inspired our Constitution's
Bill
of Rights, said, "To disarm the people -- that was the best and
most effectual way to enslave them."
The late Vice President
Hubert H. Humphrey: "Certainly, one of the chief guarantees of
freedom under any government, no matter how popular and
respected, is
the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms. ... The right of
the
citizen to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary
government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now
appears
remote in America but which historically has proven to be always
possible."

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Irony: That New York state
newspaper that published the names and addresses of all legal
gun
owners in two counties didn't like it when a competing
newspaper published similar information about the first paper's
employees who were involved in publishing the original story;
even
less when gun-rights supporters put the same information on the
internet about all the first paper's employees.
So now the paper that
thought it just fine to publish the names of people who own guns
legally … has fearfully hired – what else? – armed guards.
Hired gunmen.
The paper is obviously run by hypocrites who
are also cowards.

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First, House Speaker John
Boehner refuses to move ahead with part of a pork-laden bill
disguised as relief for Hurricane Sandy victims … then gets heat
from New Jersey's governor, the blowhard Chris Christie … then
reverses himself and announces he'll go ahead with it. All
within a
matter of hours.
It may or may not
happen, depending on just how angry the majority of his fellow
House
Republicans are over his sell-out to Obama on the bogus “cliff,”
but Boehner is far past his “sell-by” date. He should go. By any
measure, he's a failure.

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So Al-Jazeera has bought Al
Gore's failed cable-TV operation. Not that the tiny audience
will
likely notice any difference.
On the bright side, it's
likely to be more pro-America than MSNBC. Or CNN.
Gore, solid Democrat phony that he is, rushed
to complete the deal before January 1.
Why? Because he saved a ton of money by concluding the
transaction
before the higher tax rates – which he supported – kicked in.

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Media bias is a built-in
burden for any aspiring Republican politician, who must assume
that
anything he/she says is likely to be taken totally out of context
and
twisted for the benefit of a Democrat opponent.
In the recent
presidential election we had a perfect example. When he uttered
the
words, Mitt Romney was clearly referring to a bloated government
payroll, fattened even more by Obama's hiring of still more
deadwood
(how many aides DOES Michelle have? Dozens! While predecessor
First
Ladies got by with one or two.)
The words Romney used
were, “I like to fire people.”
He should have
known
before they left his lips out the leftist media would isolate that
statement as meaning he wanted to drive even more people out of real
jobs. Sure enough, that's exactly how the Obamunists played it –
and millions of dummies bought it.

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Burt Prelutsky dares to be
politically incorrect …
“We’re all well
aware that you can’t speak honestly about blacks and Latinos
without some self-righteous left-wing clod accusing you of
racism. We
are supposed to simply grant them a special status, pretending
that
it’s only white bigotry that prevents them from taking their
rightful place among society’s elite. In order to do that, of
course, we have to ignore the fact that the illegitimacy rate
among
blacks is over 70% and among Hispanics, 50%. We also have to
pretend
that although 79% of Asians and 76% of whites stick around long
enough to get their high school diplomas, whereas only 60% of
blacks
and 58% of Latinos do so, it plays no role in explaining why
these
two groups make up such a large percentage of the perpetual
underclass.
“There is in fact no
surer way of guaranteeing that people will never reach
middle-class
status than by raising kids without fathers, who will then drop
out
of school the first chance they get. But we are all supposed to
pretend that they are the innocent victims of a racist society
because to do otherwise smacks of bigotry.”

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The once-vaunted Big Ten's
image as a powerhouse football conference has again taken a
beating
in the big Bowl games. While Michigan State and Northwestern
salvaged
second and third-level games, the big boys got their heads
handed to
them: Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Purdue – all went down in
flames.
Best game so far: South
Carolina's last-minute win over Michigan. Look for the name of
Jadeveon Clowney, defensive end from South Carolina, to be
prominent
in the NFL in the future. The kid's a terror on the field. His
hit on
a Michigan running back shook the ball loose and corrected a
blatant
error by the referee on the preceding play. That official should
never be allowed to wear a whistle again.

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The word for today:
forte.
Pseudo-sophisticates insist on pronouncing it
"for-TAY."
Wrong.
The correct pronunciation is "FORT."
Just like
an edifice constructed to defend against enemy attack.
No
charge.

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Mike presents a checklist
that may remind some of a New Year's Eve, either recent or
not-so-recent …
THINGS
THAT
ARE DIFFICULT
TO SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. Innovative
2. Preliminary
3.
Proliferation
4. Cinnamon

THINGS THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLETO
SAY WHEN DRUNK:
1. No thanks, I'm married.
2. Nope, no more
booze for me!
3. Sorry, but you're not really my type.
4. Good
evening, officer. Isn't it lovely out tonight ?
5. Oh, I couldn't!
No one wants to hear me sing karaoke.
6. I must be going home now.
I have to be at work in the morning.

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Reader Peter offers this
touching domestic tale …
Tim
decided to tie the knot with his long time girlfriend.
One
evening after the honeymoon he was assembling some gear for
a hunting
trip.
His wife was watching him. She finally
speaks.
“Honey, I've been thinking, now that we
are married I
think it's time you quit hunting, shooting, and
fishing. Maybe
you should sell your guns, your boat and the
motorcycle.”
Tim gets this horrified look on his
face.
She says,
"Darling, what's wrong?"
"For a minute
there, you were sounding like my ex-wife.”
"Ex
wife? I didn't know you were married before!"
"I
wasn't.“